How to Display Vector telemetry on your Taranis radio

If you use a Taranis radio and an X8R or compatible “Smart Port” telemetry enabled receiver, you can now see lots of Vector telemetry and log data on your radio!

To utilize this feature, you will need to install version 11.68 or later Vector software, from here.

You will also need to build a simple cable that connects between the Vector’s "UART" port and the receiver’s “S.Port” input. See the photo of the cable below. ET may later offer the cable pre-made if there’s enough demand – let us know!

IMPORTANT: don’t connect the cable to any Vector port other than "UART," or to any receiver port other than “S.Port”. Doing so could damage your equipment! Also, you CANNOT have additional Smart Port compatible telemetry modules connected at the same time as the Vector is connected.

Note: only the X8R receiver has been tested, but other "X Series" Smart Port enabled receivers may work. Non Smart Port telemetry receivers will NOT work.

Here is information on the readouts that you can display on the Taranis. Please consult your Taranis manual or forum threads if you have questions about how to use and configure telemetry readouts on your radio, or how to log data to your radio.

I tried to do this on the weekend.
I made up the cable, installed the beta. The vector is plugged in UART to SPort on the X8R, and I confirmed that the X8R is set up correctly as I'm getting data on my Taranis through my voltage sensor but when I plug the Vector back into the SPort I get only zeros on my telem. Even after reboot.
(This is on a quad but I have another Vector on a fixed wing, haven't tried that yet)

Installed the beta, and the Tarnis Telemetry appears to work well with the X4R receiver, though the voltage reading seemed to jump a bit. Also, you should note that the current source should be set to FAS (or at least it did with my version of the Taranis OpenTX software).